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Bluetooth 5 for $4
“You need to be careful with a Bluetooth headset. Because some guys look crazy with them.” – Neil Strauss It’s still early days for Bluetooth…
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Taking the Pain Out of Field Upgrades
“Aging is mostly the failure to repair.” – Gregory Benford Constant feature updates aren’t just a nuisance for consumers. They’re a pain for developers, too.…
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Ultimate Guide to Switch Debounce (Part 9)
Yes! This is it! At long last we’ve reached the final part of this epic saga into all things related as to why switches bounce…
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Cloud Services Screw Us Over, Example #8534
“Wealth, like happiness… comes as a byproduct of providing a useful service.” – Henry Ford Internet connectivity is like stack overflow. Each new one pushes…
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Creating the Universal Processor
“If I had to calculate 100% certainty on every deal I did, I would do zero deals.” – Chip Gaines “Prodigy” is an appropriate name…
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IOTech: Bridging the OT-IT Divide
I’ve just been talking to the folks from a jolly interesting company called IOTech. One of the things they told me that really struck a…
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To the Graduating Class of 2020
Note: I was inexplicably invited to address a graduating class of Electrical Engineers, which included my nephew, Daniel. That gathering got canceled, of course, so…
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Debugging as a Career Goal
“There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.” – Steven Levy Debugging your code or hardware is rarely seen…
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Compellingly Cunning Embedded Code Coverage
I just heard about a new code coverage tool from Microchip Technology that’s targeted at embedded designs, that’s quick and easy to use, and that…
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Xilinx and Samsung Collaborate on 5G
These are crazy times. Even though most of the world is locked down in quarantine right now due to the COVID-19 pandemic, engineering teams around…